Personal citizen merit value? So this world has a social credit score?
As he made his request, the electronic voice sounded again: [Connecting to Impartial Goddess requires the most rigorous identity verification, as well as the verification of your personal Citizen Merit value to ensure the reputation of Chang Ning Steel Mech Research Institute will not be damaged by your personal actions. Do you confirm you want to connect to the Goddess?]
Worlds' Apocalypse Online
Sci-fi · Flaming Fortress
I'm kind of late to this discussion, but Trump was systematically banned by the big social media platforms, at the same time. There was probably some corruption shenanigans, but it was overtly a bunch of private companies refusing service to people, which is protected by the right of businesses to refuse service for (almost) any reason. Morally, I think places like Twitter should be treated as public spaces, and I'd like them to not be allowed to refuse service for any reason. Currently, the Biden administration is pressuring social media companies to delete and ban people for spreading 'vaccine misinformation' to the point that Twitter will delete people for posting the simple scientific fact that the vaccinated can spread Covid, which anyone can easily look up in a search engine. Overall, I think China's censorship is much worse than the US, but I don't live there, so it doesn't affect me as much as Twitter's censorship.
"Those videos and posts that were uploaded online would be promptly 404ed, which means the departments concerned are still intent on keeping those things secret. Could it be that the revival of Qi has just started?"
Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting, While I Started a Farm
Eastern · Oof
It seems ridiculous to say that everyone in the Primordial Dimension gets an equal opportunity. Shane was given free dragon blood, a free dagger, an free spatial ring with additional benefits (which only he can use). That's not equal at all! Is it supposed to be Shane's opinion, despite not being framed that way? Shane would have to be stupid to believe that.
Wait, so the system will warp reality to suite the mission difficulty? If she gets 2x more sneaky, the building will inexplicably have 2x as many illusory walls and all of the guards will have memories of those illusory walls inserted into their mind. That's a pretty wack system, but its neat.
I like this light novel, but I find it very odd that the orcs didn't make a single trap. You could probably chalk it up to them hunting in person, rather than with trapping, but a few spiked pit traps or stacks of rollable logs could have taken out a significant number of enemies.
This guy has no problem cheating on his girlfriend. He didn't even worry about it.
'a hella prison' I assume they mean hellish
It may sound gentle and grand because it contains' Resting' and 'Palace' words, but it is actually just a hella prison for the demons.
I Can Extract Everything
Eastern · Mysterious_Pen
I'm glad to see that they harvested the beast cores. I found it strange when people didn't try harvesting the sand serpents' cores. They might have had to exert themselves harder, to avoid being left behind, but thousands of even Ordinary ranked serpent cores would probably be hundreds of gold coins. That would be a potentially life changing amount for the poorer members of the group.
Condemning the Heavens
Eastern · Tinalynge